Google Forms Partnership With NASA 237
jangobongo writes "Google said on Wednesday that it plans to partner with NASA on space research projects. The new partnership will involve R&D on biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology, as well as supercomputing. The news article notes some of the mutual benefits: "Google stands to gain from learning about NASA's supercomputers, which could come in handy as the Mountain View search engine compiles even bigger indexes of information and video. NASA leaders cited the benefits of getting access to Google's search expertise to pick out nuggets of information from the volumes of data streaming back from satellites and human space launches."" This story might seem familiar to you. Consider it a public service: if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment.
So it wasn't a joke after all (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html [google.com]
Should Be Open Bid (Score:4, Interesting)
Competition for government partnerships [bnl.gov] is always better than just selecting the current industry lead. The US government did that with office suites and is now paying a hefty price for that decision.
Re:R E P O S T (Score:5, Interesting)
Once again, I saw this before it happened (subscribers see articles before they go "green") and reported it to the "If you see a serious problem with this article, report it to daddypants@slashdot.org". I sent the email, with a link and everything to Zonk's post of the same thing.
Just like last time, nothing happened. No acknowledgement of the email (automated _or_ human), and the dupe went out.
Hey editors, does anyone read the daddypants emails? Am I wasting my time? I mean, if you're not going to do anything about it anyway, remove the mailto: link.
Annoyed,
djh101010
Re:instant karma (Score:2, Interesting)
In any event, I really hope that all of this does generate some positive interest in NASA.
Re:Should Be Open Bid (Score:3, Interesting)
"Considering how much data NASA has to process, I think Google's tools fit right in . . ."
I remember a TV news piece about NASA not having the capability to process the data in it s collection due to the bandwidth of the tape backup system at the time and the shelf life and quantity of the tapes. This is the sort of data set that Google seems to look for in any market they can conceive of.
Since this data is work of the federal government it should be Public domain as well. The Public would benefit form having such information available. Anything from videos of all previous shuttle missions (NASA TV presented by Google Video) to Galactic Maps, Transcripts and scientific data from unmanned and manned missions going back to the 1950s. (Does NASA (or any other govt. agency) currently offer the data they've collected for the public in usable formats such as excel spreadsheets or other comparable formats that are not primarily publications formats such as PDF or HTML?)